Placket-fastener



Patented Dem-27, |898;

M. YB. MILLER.

PLACKET FASTENER.

(Application n'xed nec. 15, 1891.)

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NITRD STATES MARGARET B. MILLER, OF MALONE, NEV YORK.

PLAc KET-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,720, dated December 27, 1898.

Application filed December l 5 l 8 9 7.

ToaZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, MARGARET B. MILLER, of Malone, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Placket-Fastener, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved placket-fastener which is simple and durable in construction,readily applied to a skirt, and arranged to securely hold the sides of the placket-opening in a closed position. j

The invention consists of novel features, as hereinafter more fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as applied and in a closed position. Fig. l2 is an enlarged perspective view of part of a skirt with the improvement applied and with part broken out. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective view of the improvement in a closed position. Fig. 4 is a similar view of the same with the members open, and Fig. 5 is an edge View of the same.

The improved placket-fastener is provided with two members A A', preferably made of thin pieces of steel and pivotally connected with each other at their lower ends by a pivot B to permit of opening and closing the said members, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4. The members A and A are fastened by sewing or like means in the sides of the placket-opening of a skirt, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and the upper end of the member A is provided with a tip or cover C, of leather, rubber, canvas, or other suitable material, to engage and pass into a spring-catch D, carried at the free end of the other member A. Thus when the members A A are closed the tip or covering C, on account of being of a roughened material, is securely held in the spring-catch D, so as to prevent accidental opening of the placket-fastener, at the same time permitting of opening the device whenever it is desired to do so. Thus it will be seen that when the device is applied on a garment the sides of the placket-opening remain in a closed posi- Serial No. 662,010. (No model.)

tion, owing to the members A A' being attached to each other by the means described, so that the placket-opening remains closed while the skirt is being worn.

By having the members A and A of thin steel they readily yield or bend to allow the dress-skirt to hang properly, it being understood that the sides of the placket-opening overlap when the device is closed.

By reference to Figs. l and 2 it will be seen that the upper ends of the fastener terminate a suitable distance from the waistband to keep the garment in proper position when the wearer sits down and also allowing the wearer to conveniently hold up the skirt Withoutinterfering with the graceful hang thereof.

I am aware that it is not new to construct a placket-fastener of two thin pieces of metal jointed together at one end and having at the top a hook on one member embracing an offset portion of the other member and in which the two members have a point of articulation below their upper ends to permit the dress to be lifted or pulled to one side in crossing muddy streets, ttc., and I make no claim to this. In my invention the members have no point of articulation except at the lower end, where they are jointed together. Both members are perfectly straight, but resilient, and one of them has itsv end completely incased in a iexible pad or soft covering where it enters the hook of the other. This is to furnish sufficient friction or jamming action as it enters the hook to prevent it from ever becoming accidentally loosened from its hold thereon, as is liable to occur when a smooth piece of metal engages with vanother smooth piece of metal. A further advantage is to completely cover and conceal all of the visible end of this entering member, so that it does not cut the clothing and does not show any unsightly glittering metal. two members of the placket in the side hem of the openingand allowing the upperends to emerge at a point some distancebelow the waistband the flexibility of the skirt above the ends of the placket-fastener and between it and the waistband permits the skirt to be raised or pulled to one side in crossing Wet streets, &c., without any complication or ex- By inclosing the pense, and thus a very simple and practical device for the purpose is afforded at a merely nominal price.

Having thus fully described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl.4 A placket-fastener comprising two resilient members jointed together at their lower ends, and having at their upper ends, the one a clasp-hook opening toward its opposing member, and the other an elastic pad completely inclosing the same and adapted to be .received into and frietionally held by the elasphook substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with a skirt having a placket-opening; of a placket-fastener oonsisting of two resilient members jointed toscribed.

MARGARET B. MILLER. lVitnesses:

MARY M. BADGER, WILLIAM P. BADGER. 

